Do I need to put another load of washing in the machine? As I stick my head in to check the kids are asleep, my mind is whirling through all the thoughts that have no home. Have the kids got lunch food for tomorrow? I walk into our room, take in the pile of washing on the floor and start to pick up the random junk that's accumulated during the day. I must remember to book an optician's appointment. I put my glasses away a...

Summer had come around again which meant one thing: long hot sleepless nights alone. She didn’t mind that he went away during the summer months; she understood it and during the day when she was working she was able to focus her mind on other things. But as night fell and insomnia kicked in there was little she could do to distance herself from the longing of his hands on her body. Tonight was no different. Lying there, s...

After thirteen years together most couples experience a flatline in their relationships. She had seen it happen, her best friends had given up having any sort of sexual passion but then again they’d not really had any to begin with. Not like the two of them, separately they were flames, burning bright within their individual pursuits, friendship groups, careers etc. But together they were an inferno. Everyone could see it...